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By Betsy Parker
Times Community
Newspapers Staff Writer
Thoroughbred horses don’t have a lock on the spring steeplechasing season: ponies and horses of questionable, or unknown, heritage are invited to participate at 10 Virginia point-to-point events this spring.
The junior pony racing series is open to riders who have not reached their 18th birthday as of Jan. 1, 2000, mounted on small, medium or large ponies. Juniors taking part in pony races may not hold a steeplechase jockey’s license. (A qualified rider may obtain a National Sstppnlapliaao Accnciof inn
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